A letter to the Editor

27 Haportzim st.

holon

september 7, 2013

(The Editor)

"Aaretz" newspaper
Jerusalem

To the Editor,

Yesterday I was reading your article at(ww.) the newspaper about the meitzav tests and the explanations about their cancellation, and i have to say, as a student at(ww.) high school, that i totally agree with the explanations you gave in your article, and the meitzav tests should have been suspended long ago.

I don't know how the meitzav tests work in other schools, but in my school the meitzav tests serve a diffrent cause(ww.-purpose) that(ww) the meitzav was made for. The school use(gr.) the tests to show that it is the most successfull school around, and that most of the students should learn at(ww.) that school.

Second, the teachers wasted a lot of time to teach(gr.) the students harder only to achieve a good grade on the meitzav exam, only for the intrest of the school to look better. That made the learning at(ww.) meitzav time a lot harder and (more) exhausting.

To conclude, the meizav tests are suppose(d)  to serve a cause(ww.) and the schools are turning it into a competition between them. I am glad you published your article in the newspaper so everybody can understand how unnecessary the tests was(gr.) for the students.


Sincerely yours.
Ben Stark.
Much better. Well done.
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Daphna